By: Inobe~
Who is the NRA?
The National Rifle Association is America's longest-standing civil rights organization. Together with our more than five million members, we're proud defenders of history's patriots and diligent protectors of the Second Amendment.
Team, please read this about section on them it’s pretty interesting and now I understand how they became so powerful as a civil rights organization.
Here are some bullet points from the article:
§ Dismayed by the lack of marksmanship shown by their troops, Union veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate formed the National Rifle Association in 1871.
§ The primary goal of the association would be to "promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis," according to a magazine editorial written by Church.
§ After being granted a charter by the state of New York on November 17, 1871, the NRA was founded.
§ Civil War Gen. Ambrose Burnside, who was also the former governor of Rhode Island and a U.S. senator, became the fledgling NRA's first president.
§ An important facet of the NRA's creation was the development of a practice ground.
§ In 1872, with financial help from New York State, a site on Long Island, the Creed Farm, was purchased for the purpose of building a rifle range. Named Creedmoor, the range opened a year later, and it was there that the first annual matches were held.
§ Political opposition to the promotion of marksmanship in New York forced the NRA to find a new home for its range. In 1892, Creedmoor was deeded back to the state and NRA's matches moved to Sea Girt, New Jersey.
§ The NRA's interest in promoting the shooting sports among America's youth began in 1903 when NRA Secretary Albert S. Jones urged the establishment of rifle clubs at all major colleges, universities and military academies.
§ By 1906, NRA's youth program was in full swing with more than 200 boys competing in matches at Sea Girt that summer.
§ (Through schools) today, youth programs are still a cornerstone of the NRA, with more than one million youth participating in NRA shooting sports events and affiliated programs with groups such as 4-H, the Boy Scouts of America, the American Legion, Royal Rangers, National High School Rodeo Association and others.
§ Due to the overwhelming growth of NRA's shooting programs, a new range was needed.
§ In 1949, the NRA, in conjunction with the state of New York, established the first hunter education program.
§ NRA launched a new magazine in 1973, The American Hunter, dedicated solely to hunting issues year-round.
§ In 1975, recognizing the critical need for political defense of the Second Amendment, NRA formed the Institute for Legislative Action, or ILA.
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§ NRA continues its leadership role in hunting today with the Youth Hunter Education Challenge (YHEC), a program that allows youngsters to build on the skills they learned in basic hunter education courses.
§ YHECs are now held in 43 states and three Canadian provinces, involving an estimated 40,000 young hunters.
§ The American Hunter and The American Rifleman were the mainstays of NRA publications until the debut of The American Guardian in 1997.
§ The Guardian was created to cater to a more mainstream audience, with less emphasis on the technicalities of firearms and a more general focus on self-defense and recreational use of firearms. The Guardian was renamed America's 1st Freedom in June of 2000.
§ In civilian training, the NRA continues to be the leader in firearms education. Over 125,000 certified instructors now train about 1,000,000 gun owners a year.
§ In 1990, NRA made a dramatic move to ensure that the financial support for firearms-related activities would be available now and for future generations.
§ Establishing the NRA Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization, provided a means to raise millions of dollars to fund gun safety and educational projects of benefit to the general public. Contributions to the Foundation are tax-deductible and benefit a variety of American constituencies including youth, women, hunters, competitive shooters, gun collectors, law enforcement agents and persons with physical disabilities.
§ While widely recognized today as a major political force and as America's foremost defender of Second Amendment rights, the NRA has, since its inception, been the premier firearms education organization in the world.
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